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How many of you are Surprised by former App State LB DJ Smith?

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bleys Apprentice

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It seems like he will be vying for playing time between AJ Hawk and Desmond Bishop. For all you App haters saying there's no player from App who will or can make it. There's your example

what does this have to do with Armanti?

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4Corners Grand Master

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It seems like he will be vying for playing time between AJ Hawk and Desmond Bishop. For all you App haters saying there's no player from App who will or can make it. There's your example

App State is not a real football school. Everyone knows that except App students/grads.

Congrats on sending a marginal LB to the NFL. I wonder how his career would look right now if a team like the Raiders drafted him.

For every marginal, spot starter at a non-skill position in the NFL, there's guys like Dexter Jackson, Mark Dupree, Corey Lynch, and the soon to be unemployed Armanti Edwards.

App State fans, and I am being 110% honest here (PS and I hate Duke), are the most delusional/dumbest fan base in NC. Period. I still remember reading those AppState threads about how Armanti needed to start at QB last year.

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One more thing:

I get a kick out of my friends who went to AppState (and I have quite a few) start getting excited about maybe moving up to real college FB, D1.

That would be the most idiotic thing App FB could do. They would change over night from a yearly D1AA NC contender to a team that would be lucky to muster up 6 wins and a bid to a bowl game no one watches or cares about.

Sept 1- App State @ ECU

both teams in a rebuilding mode and I bet the Pirates win by at least 2 touchdowns at the Rowdy Dowdy.

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FWIW a list of AppState guys who played in NFLminus the most recent:

Alexander, Harold (1993 - 1994)

Armstrong, Jimmy (1987 - 1987)

Coakley, Dexter (1997 - 2006)

Dawkins, Tommy (1987 - 1987)

Demko, George (1961 - 1961)

Frier, Mike (1992 - 1994)

Graham, Derrick (1990 - 1998)

Hackett, Dino (1986 - 1993)

Hall, Corey (2001 - 2001)

Hand, Larry (1965 - 1977)

Hollar, John (1948 - 1949)

Hunter, Jason (2006 - 2010)

Jackson, Dexter (2008 - 2008)

Lynch, Corey (2008 - 2010)

Mack, Rico (1993 - 1993)

Murrell, Marques (2007 - 2010)

Nittmo, Bjorn (1989 - 1989)

Payne, Russell (1987 - 1987)

Royals, Mark (1987 - 2003)

Russell, Darryl (1987 - 1987)

Settle, John (1987 - 1990)

Smith, Struggy (1987 - 1987)

Stevens, Matt (1996 - 2003)

Watts, George (1942 - 1942)

Wilcox, Daniel (2001 - 2008)

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App State is not a real football school. Everyone knows that except App students/grads.

Congrats on sending a marginal LB to the NFL. I wonder how his career would look right now if a team like the Raiders drafted him.

For every marginal, spot starter at a non-skill position in the NFL, there's guys like Dexter Jackson, Mark Dupree, Corey Lynch, and the soon to be unemployed Armanti Edwards.

App State fans, and I am being 110% honest here (PS and I hate Duke), are the most delusional/dumbest fan base in NC. Period. I still remember reading those AppState threads about how Armanti needed to start at QB last year.

Must be a michigan fan?
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4Corners Grand Master

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Must be a michigan fan?

No. I was pulling for app that game. I hate the big10. My gf and her family all went to Ohio state and I can assure you that the B10 fan base consists of delusional morons stuck living in the past - AppState would fit in nicely with them.

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App State is not a real football school. Everyone knows that except App students/grads.

Congrats on sending a marginal LB to the NFL. I wonder how his career would look right now if a team like the Raiders drafted him.

For every marginal, spot starter at a non-skill position in the NFL, there's guys like Dexter Jackson, Mark Dupree, Corey Lynch, and the soon to be unemployed Armanti Edwards.

App State fans, and I am being 110% honest here (PS and I hate Duke), are the most delusional/dumbest fan base in NC. Period. I still remember reading those AppState threads about how Armanti needed to start at QB last year.

I love how in 2005 everybody was "Good job, App!" when they won championship one and now they are loathed like this.

If we are truly an irrelevant school, as you say, why so much hate? I have no qualms with ECU. I respect ECU for what they have accomplished considering that they are a 5th FBS school in the state.

The only thing worse on this board than App homers are the ones so fed up with them in the first place. Heck, I've realized for awhile now that the AE experiment has failed. That doesn't make his accomplishments in college any less important.

Am I not allowed to be proud of my school because they are "not real" football?

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